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Whitetails Unlimited Headquarters Located in Outdoor Playground
If you vacation in Door County, make sure you stop at WTU’s national headquarters.

The dramatic climax of a traditional Door County fish boil is the fiery boil over. Shown is the fish boil at the White Gull Inn, in Fish Creek. Photo © Jeff Davis.

Whitetails Unlimited

Wisconsin’s Door County - -(AmmoLand.com)- Whitetails Unlimited has the good fortune to have its national headquarters in one of the Midwest’s premier vacation destinations – Wisconsin’s Door County. A pleasant side effect of this geographical positioning is that our friends and members of the outdoor industry stop in to visit when they are vacationing on the peninsula.

“We love to have people drop in on us,” said WTU Executive Director Pete Gerl. “We have a great facility here and we love to show it off. It’s always good to have members visit so we can thank them for their support, and it’s always a pleasant surprise when someone connected with the outdoor industry locates us and we find out they’re in the lobby. There is so much to do in Door County, but it’s kind of fun to talk shop for a little while with someone you meet by chance.

Whitetails Unlimited has always been headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, the largest town in Door County. This is a peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan and has more shoreline, and more lighthouses, than any other county in the U.S. There are a dozen private campgrounds, plus five state parks with hundreds of campsites and miles and miles of hiking and bike trails. One state park is accessible only by boat and does not allow any vehicles. “This is one of the worlds best fisheries, with something for everybody,” said Gerl. “There are pan fish and perch, but also incredible bass and walleye fishing, and if you have the boat and gear, or want to charter a boat, you can go after big salmon, lake trout and whitefish in the deep water of Lake Michigan.”

The county also boasts a wide variety of performing arts and music, including the oldest summer stock theater in the country, and a thriving visual arts community. There are enough golf courses to wear out an avid golfer, and a wide variety of outdoor activities are available, like kayaking, SCUBA diving, boat cruises, horseback riding and even a drive-in movie theater.

“We invite anyone who is a friend of the outdoor industry to stop in and say hello when they are in Door County on vacation,” said Gerl. “This is such a great place to live, and I’m a little embarrassed to say that it’s easy to start to overlook what we have when we live here every day. When we get visitors their enthusiasm helps remind us that we need to get out and enjoy our backyard more often.”

The Whitetails Unlimited national headquarters is located at 2100 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235. More information about Door County can be found at www.doorcounty.com.

About:
Founded in 1982, Whitetails Unlimited is a national nonprofit conservation organization. Our mission is to raise funds in support of education, habitat enhancement and acquisition, and the preservation of the hunting tradition for the benefit of the white-tailed deer and other wildlife. When it comes to the whitetail and its environment, WTU’s degree of professionalism and dedication has earned us the reputation of being the nation’s premier whitetail organization.

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